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Building better goal posts for emissions accounting

Building better goal posts for emissions accounting

Update: 2024-08-29
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Accountants often have low profiles and their accounts seem merely to keep score on the games of capitalism, but they can sometimes shape capitalism itself - and maybe even the atmosphere.

Bernard Hickey talks with Dr Amelia Sharman from the External Reporting Board. Typically an obscure setter of accounting standards nestled somewhere between the government and companies, she details how the XRB’s new standards for emissions accounting might just change the world.

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